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YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter
Simple setup meets a nightmare of database bloat.
DecliningPoor rating
51/100
Easy setup attracts beginners but severe performance issues and difficult refund policies alienate users.
Active installs
~85,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+
Rating
3.5★
99 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-21%
Declining
598 → 475 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.39★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -21% in the last year
598/day a year ago→475/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayYITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter has a functional free tier that beginners find approachable, but it carries a serious reputation for database bloat, site-breaking performance issues, an aggressive and opaque subscription/refund policy, and support that is slow and often unhelpful.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use for beginners out of the box×3
- +Shortcode placement gives flexibility to put filters anywhere on a page
- +Supports multiple simultaneous filter selections and multiple separate filter widgets
- +Support resolved at least one specific block-compatibility bug via the WordPress forum
Common complaints
- −Causes severe performance problems: slow MySQL queries, white screen of death, and excessive memory consumption×3
- −Plugin-generated database tables caused massive database bloat (970 MB growing to 3200 MB), slowing the entire site
- −Reported security exploits actively used by bot networks for DoS attacks, with YITH refusing to investigate without a live server login
- −Mobile view broken or completely empty in some theme/builder combinations×2
- −Support is slow (20+ days without resolution) and unhelpful, often demanding admin access to the live site×4
- −Refund requests refused even when the plugin caused site failures or when significant subscription time remained×3
- −Subscription auto-renews and charges without sending an invoice or notification email
- −Lifetime refund allowance capped at three modules, creating a hard limit that traps users who consolidate to YITH products
- −Support not honoured for licenses purchased through third-party marketplaces such as Themeforest
- −Filter widget appears on unintended pages (e.g. single product pages) with no built-in page restriction controls, causing fatal errors
- −Filters for attributes and categories sometimes fail to display at all
- −No mobile-friendly settings found in the plugin options
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.39★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.50★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 99 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-11★★★★★Finally, a plugin that worksDan S.
- 2026-01-23★★★★★mi è piaciutosimona mendeni1-shot
- 2025-08-07★★★★★Poor designdomagron
- 2025-06-20★★★★★Great Job!digivantec
- 2025-03-03★★★★★Had to uninstalleddio
- 2025-02-19★★★★★Easy to set up – works really well!thegingercreative1-shot
- 2024-11-04★★★★★Best filter evermsmartsolutions
- 2024-09-16★★★★★Il miglioreFabio Bernini
- 2024-08-30★★★★★Works Out of the Boxmindykatzen
- 2024-06-18★★★★★White screen of deathalankor2015
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to YITH WooCommerce Ajax Product Filter
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
576
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
442
Prior 7-day baseline
508
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
5,659
Mean release-day peak (30d)
576
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+30.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.31
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
56%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.43 → 3.39★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered